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Technorati is indexing me again! They had to make a code change to fix
the problem with my blog getting stuck in their queue. Kudos to Eric M.
and the guys at
GetSatisfaction.com
where they have "community powered support for Technorati".

Well, they're "sorta, kinda" indexing me anyway. It's on a 24 hour tape
delay or something. So I never get picked up by Memeorandum because they
pull from Technorati and Technorati has stuff I posted yesterday
listed as my latest blog entry. And that's old news to Memeorandum.

Wankers.

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Chris Christie and other Northeast governors went hat-in-hand to Washington
this week seeking federal funds to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy. And President
Big Spender readily agreed,
proposing $60.4 Billion in immediate aid.

President Barack Obama formally asked Congress Friday for $60.4 billion to help
states such as New Jersey and New York rebuild in the aftermath of devastating
Superstorm Sandy.

"Our Nation has an obligation to assist those who suffered losses and who lack
adequate resources to rebuild their lives," acting Office of Management and
Budget Director Jeffrey Zients said in a letter to Republican House Speaker
John Boehner and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

As for that "our nation has an obligation" thing, here's what Democrat
Grover Cleveland(born right here in Caldwell, NJ) had to say about
that:

I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution and I do
not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be
extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly
related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard
the limited mission of this power and duty should I think be steadfastly
resisted to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that though
the people support the government the government should not support the people.

Amen Brother.

If you want to encourage redevelopment then invite private investment and
incentivize them with tax breaks. Chris Christie keeps saying the Jersey
Shore is so "vital", well then entrepreneurs ought to be chomping at the
bit to invest in its future. Banks can underwrite loans, leave the taxpayers
out of it. And if you didn't have insurance or can't afford to rebuild? Sorry,
but you chose poorly and that's not my problem.

Any Congressman who votes for this boondoggle isn't serious about cutting the
deficit or reducing the size of government. It's time to stop paying lip
service to austerity and to start making the hard decisions. Otherwise, why
bother complaining about anything the government spends money on?